Lithuania has thrown away some 46,600 coronavirus vaccines after they expired, the Health Ministry has said. Some 36,200 doses were disposed of in April and another 10,400 in May. “So far, we have only disposed of Moderna vaccines due to their expiration date,” Lukas Galkus, an adviser at the Health Ministry, said, adding that there…
A working group on May 13 finalised a cross-party agreement on beefing up Lithuania’s national security. The final draft excludes commitments to introduce universal military service and a specific percentage of GDP to be spent on defence, as previously expected. The agreement, to be signed by all parties represented in the Lithuanian parliament, is meant…
Lithuania was a dairy powerhouse before the Second World War. One family from Panevezys is now trying to bring that heritage back to life. There were almost 300 dairy plants in Lithuania in the 1930s, and about 2,000 more milk-skimming stations, according to Alfredas Bumblauskas, history professor at Vilnius University. They processed about 500 million…
SEB has revised its forecast for Lithuania’s GDP growth in 2022 up to 0.9% from 0.1% in late March, and has raised its projection for 2023 to 1.8%. SEB Lithuania’s economist Tadas Povilauskas says that the upward revision reflects expectations of a less sharp economic downturn in the second quarter, as well as a positive…
Vilnius and Warsaw will consider joint arms procurements, Lithuanian Defence Minister Arvydas Anusauskas has said during a joint press conference with his visiting Polish counterpart Mariusz Blaszczak in Vilnius. “The synchronisation of acquisitions is not a simple thing. We are trying to synchronise the purchase of multiple rocket launchers with the Baltic countries. Of course,…
Poland’s consumer authority has imposed a 5.3-million zloty (EUR 1.14 million) fine on Vinted, a Lithuanian 3.5-billion-euro platform for trading second-hand clothing and items. Vinted “had provided inadequate information regarding the conditions of access to the money earned by sellers on the platform and the possibility of opting out of a paid feature protecting buyers”,…
The number of electric car charging stations in Lithuania is expected to increase at least 10-fold within the upcoming eight years, Transport and Communications Minister Marius Skuodis has said. On May 11, the minister presented a roadmap for developing an infrastructure for electric vehicle charging points until 2030. According to Skuodis, there are around 9,000…